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distant when the Province will be able to see its way clear to furnish the 

 funds for the accomplishment of this necessary work. A proper classifica- 

 tion of the land would not only favour the best agricultural interests of the 

 Province, but would abolish the friction between the holders of timber 

 licenses and those who are there, not to get the timber, but to become bona 

 fide settlers. I believe this problem shoould be one of the first to be finally 

 settled in connection with the establishment of a definite forestry policy for 

 the Province. 



Mr. President, the time at my disposal has not permitted me to go as 

 fully into this matter as I would like ; still, I feel that I have touched upon 

 some points that are at the present time most important for the considera- 

 tion of the people of our Province. If the advice I have given be received by 

 the Government and the people, as its merit demands, there is no doubt that 

 our forests will be preserved for all time to come as a source of great wealth. 



I have only one thing more to say and that is that when the producing 

 ability of our lands is accurately known by actual survey and examination 

 it will be an easy matter for competent men to decide what lumber shall be 

 cut annually without injury to our future growth. Under no circumstances 

 should the yearly cut be allowed to exceed the annual growing capacity. 



THE PRESIDENT : The next item on our programme is "Representatives 

 of Various Organizations," I would now call upon Mr. Frank Hawkins, 

 Secretary of the Canadian Lumbermen's Association. 



MR. HAWKINS' ADDRESS. 



Mr. President, Ladies and Gentlemen : In the absence of our President, 

 Mr. Gordon C. Edwards, who is in England, I have been deputed to say ii 

 few words on behalf of the Canadian Lumbermen's Association. From the 

 fact that the President of the Canadian Forestry Association is one of our 

 members, and that Mr. Gordon C. Edwards, our President, and Mr. J. B. 

 Miller, our Vice-President, are intimately connected with this Association, 

 1 think you will have sufficient evidence that the lumbermen are intensely 

 interested in this matter of Forestry. I have no mandate from the Lumber- 

 mens' Association, but I think I speak truthfully when I say that there is 

 not a member of our Association who will not second any and every effort 

 which is being made by the Forestry Association along the lines on which we 

 are having so much information here to-day. If you will allow a personal 

 reference, I wish to state that I never lose an opportunity of putting forward 

 the interests of the Canadian Forestry Association. A little while ago, 

 while on a trip to Winnipeg, I had the pleasure of meeting on the train an 

 Australian lady and her daughter who were returning home by way of 

 Vancouver. In the course of conversation she said, "Mr. Hawkins, I don't 



